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Month: April 2012
New Bushwick HQ for Two Coats of Paint, Guest Gallerist this Saturday
Tomorrow I’m moving to a new studio in one of Bushwick’s older artists’ buildings.The space features a beautiful view to the east, convenient location near […]
At the University of Washington: Travis Davis Smith and Andrew Dadson
The University of Washington runs the biggest art program in Seattle, and when I was out there last week, first-year MFA student Travis Davis Smith […]
A few of Philip Guston’s letters to Varujan Boghosian
I’m interrupting my Seattle coverage to present some images of the excellent letters on display at Lori Bookstein through Saturday. For ten years, Guston and […]
Seattle studio visit: Robert Hardgrave and friends
Working intuitively and responding to the process as it unfolds, Robert Hardgrave tries to stay out of the way and let the paintings make themselves. […]
Seattle studio visit: Cable Griffith
Cable Griffith, the Gallery Director at Cornish College of the Arts, paints peculiar worlds, full of familiar elements such as trees, lakes, hills, and skies […]
Seattle Report: Studio visit with Robert Yoder
Last week I flew out to Seattle where I saw “SQUEEZE HARD (Hold that Thought),” a two-person show I’m in at SEASON, Robert Yoder’s home-based […]
STUDIO VISIT: 52 O Street
If I were going to get a studio space in DC, I’d get one at 52 O Street, where I went to Open Studios this […]
IMAGES: Michele Araujo @ Studio 10
In 2010 I visited Michele Araujo‘s DUMBO studio, where she was working on several promising new paintings. Known for piercingly bright acrylic colors and the […]
Quick study: Abstract portraits, Instagram, thoughtful review of the show at SEASON, QR Codes in the London subway.
In Time Out New York, Jackie Saccoccio’s show at Eleven Rivington gets four stars. “Jackie Saccoccio�s latest paintings, titled ‘Portraits,’ have the beauty and menace […]
Journalist discovers that Facebook doesn’t cause loneliness
Theorizing about Facebook’s effect on society must sell magazines. In The Atlantic this month Stephen Marche’s cover story, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?,” is about […]
EMAIL: A note to Mira Schor
Inspired by Raphael Rubinstein’s approach to the Artseen section of The Brooklyn Rail, EMAIL is a new section featuring short posts based on notes written […]
The danger of overthinking
In an arch NYTimes review this morning, Roberta Smith suggests Pamela Rosenkranz’s solo at Miguel Abreu relies too heavily on the over-articulated, perhaps overwrought, ideas […]
College Art Association: 2013 Painting Panels
I had hoped to organize a painting panel for the next CAA Conference (Jered Sprecher and Rebecca Morris were among the painters I had invited […]
A good year for painters at the Guggenheim Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation recently announced their 2012 Fellows, and (remarkably) nearly half of the winners in the Fine Arts category are painters. The […]
Learning out loud: Terry Winters at Matthew Marks
Ken Johnson at the NYTimes called Terry Winters’s new paintings at Matthew Marks both gorgeous and ravishing, but after seeing the show yesterday, I have […]
Squeeze Hard (Hold That Thought)
Field trip to Seattle! Robert Yoder has invited me to participate in a two-person exhibition at SEASON with well known Seattle artist Allison Manch. My […]
Thomas Kinkade is dead
According to his family, Thomas Kinkade, 54, aka Painter of Light, died in his Los Gatos, California, home yesterday of natural causes. [UPDATE: Looks like […]
Dear Tamara, and other letters about art
This month, Raphael Rubinstein is the guest editor of the Rail’s ArtSeen section. Citing letters from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, and the […]
Report from Nashville
Adrienne Outlaw, the wonderfully creative director of Nashville Cultural Arts Project and Seed Space, a non-profit exhibition and project initiative, invited me to Nashville last […]
